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"benighted" Definitions
  1. (of people) without understanding
  2. (of places) without the benefits of modern life

156 Sentences With "benighted"

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Clearly, Tommy John represents an improvement over those benighted times.
What could have possessed that benighted 1692 administration, we ask today?
Leadership Council (DLC) and its benighted son Bill Clinton are all intimately
Belle, my favorite character in the movie, is also the least benighted.
Only later does she reveal that she is the benighted woman scorned.
The $27m raised is to be returned to Mr Obiang's benighted people.
We young Chinese don't want to be benighted in the Internet age.
The world's benighted multitudes yearn for freedom and one day will win it.
Matilda, a brilliant mathematician and prodigious reader, is loathed by her benighted parents.
Or, as it's known on these benighted shores, The Great British Baking Show.
In those benighted days we had just begun seeing what cellphones could be.
The adults, often benighted souls, are made to look comically knobby and misshapen.
Mr. Trump's benighted tax cuts are thus a double whammy to economically vulnerable families.
The benighted view that open border liberals hold of immigrants could not be more dissimilar.
What happens in Mosul matters beyond Iraq; it could even give hope to poor, benighted Aleppo.
In recent decades an enormous fertility gap has opened between these benighted places and everywhere else.
"By taking this benighted minority position, he actually places Republicans' electoral fortunes in jeopardy," he added.
For some of the president's admirers, the answer is that America has become benighted and bigoted.
While progress is partial and still reversible, Myanmar can serve as an example for other benighted regimes.
Just as we're wondering what else this benighted day will inflict on poor Cleo, her water breaks.
If you cannot agree on the facts, all you have left is a benighted clash of rival tribes.
But in some of the world's most benighted places, that may be the margin between life and death.
Is he a benighted fool embarking on a quixotic quest, or a devoted son fulfilling a religious obligation?
I became a lifelong devote, and for years would tell my benighted Eastern friends of its wonders. RIP.
Eventually, months later, about three quarters of the benighted area has power for at least ten hours a day.
Maureen Dowd WASHINGTON — IT'S a tough call to figure out which place is more benighted: Hollywood or Saudi Arabia.
Captions hail their mission to bring "high civilisation" to the benighted natives, who gaze up gratefully at their mentors.
But Hollywood, known for lecturing benighted Republicans about their supposed bigotry and racism, is standing on a diversity sandcastle.
Israel's LGBT Task Force, an advocacy group, demanded Peretz be fired, saying in a statement his views were "benighted".
I'd like to blame my lack of televisual role models for how benighted I was about what marriage truly entails.
We live in a benighted age when our trash cans are stationary, incapable of responding to our whistles and waves.
They act as if they were right all along and other benighted critics held the views that they themselves propagated.
The tech sensibility, which has leaked into so many other industries, imagines distinctions between work and private life as benighted.
People in benighted areas who don't have access to information, you give them information, and over time, things get better.
Can there be any justification for continuing the benighted tradition of using such an offensive name to refer to the team?
Many members of Europe's court society had more to do with each other than they did with their benighted fellow-countrymen.
If it succeeds, the Middle East will start to look less benighted; if it fails, today's mayhem will turn even uglier.
They built a world in which the embargo, that benighted informational spigot, has been destroyed replaced by the well-placed leak.
For this city dweller is no slick deceiver out of Molière or Dickens, but a benighted idiot in his own right.
Because he eliminates the mediating distance of history, I didn't look down on the benighted people of Salem who believed such nonsense.
Some benighted voters are going to give Zach Britton an award for gosh sakes, and we've got to save them from themselves.
Surely the justices are not benighted enough to believe that Paul Ryan and his ilk have no idea what they are doing.
But they did not dream any would be so benighted, so blind as to place personal loyalty above the rule of law.
Recent Hollywood films have shared with a mass audience Virginia stories that, while often bitter, foretold a brighter future for benighted African-Americans.
Against the benighted church Galileo labored, alongside the other great thinkers of the sixteenth century who gave rise to our rational modern age.
In Mr. Schiff's social studies classroom, at LaGuardia High School in 1978, certain striking terms seemed quarantined firmly in a benighted American past.
The worst lines belong to the benighted Mutt, who ought to have suffered enough: "Paw on my heart," he is forced to say.
At its core, it identified a crisis that was brewing in its time — and that has reached a boil in our benighted present.
Connecticut is not normally considered a benighted state but one with a very high income level, and a large proportion of educated people.
Murray and Harris pepper their remarks with anodyne commitments to treating people as individuals, even people who happen to come from genetically benighted groups.
By now most people are aware that surging gun violence in that great and benighted Midwestern city has driven deaths there to record numbers.
He analogized Ms. Holtzman's victory to the likelihood of a toothpick "toppling the Washington Monument," proving he could consistently deliver on benighted speech patterns.
I think it was a Politico piece where they went to benighted towns in Pennsylvania and ended with a racial slur about the NFL.
The question I asked myself between shows was: Why, after all I'd just seen in the theater, was the world outside still so benighted?
And when I enter a secure area, the benighted will prod the hemorrhage-control compression bandage or collapsible miniature grappling hook and ask ignorant questions.
Whatever he might hear from his base in a supremely red state, Americans aren't nostalgic for the benighted days when Jim Crow ruled the gridiron.
The organization's purpose was to lift Jews out of their benighted surroundings and offer them the tools to make a go at life in Europe.
For years, we've wondered what's going to happen to the benighted denizens of Westeros in George R.R. Martin's book series A Song of Ice and Fire.
Outside the benighted and multiply nuked afterworld inhabited by Cleveland Browns fans, there is not much constituency for considering Robert Griffin III at all right now.
News Analysis WASHINGTON — Ever since Britain declared 100 years ago that there should be a Jewish homeland in Palestine, harmony has eluded that dry, benighted land.
This benighted figure, face set in a scowl, wears a camouflage T-shirt and a red trucker hat that doesn't need the letters MAGA to be identifiable.
In the seventh Christian century, the pope dispatched the pair to the relatively benighted land of England to instil some Greek and Latin theology and church order.
It is only thanks to brave Kashmiri and other Indian journalists filing for foreign news outlets that any picture at all of the benighted region is possible.
The subsidies and tax incentives showered on north-eastern Pennsylvania are hardly unique; the rich world abounds in efforts to jump-start the economies of benighted places.
It will demonstrate to his benighted people that his power is not to be challenged and that his nuclear weapons have given North Korea status and influence.
But if the rich world ends up stuck in deflation, the time will come to contemplate extreme action, particularly in the most benighted economies, such as Japan's.
Perhaps the most arresting essay is a previously unpublished piece in which Mr Singer urges readers to spare a thought for the poor, benighted turkey during Thanksgiving.
A recent event strongly suggested that America is hardly a nation of nihilists or is in any present danger from the purported nihilism of a benighted few.
Normally in a post like this, I, the well-informed tech writer, would try to walk you, the poor benighted reader, though the technology step by step.
MacKinnon, of course, believed that the structure itself was the problem, a notion that for more than three decades has largely been received as benighted and fusty.
Love may be blind, but it is certainly benighted, constantly threatened with discovery, by the lowering presence of Malachi and, most troublingly of all, by Moncur's tubercular lungs.
As an added bonus it might force the mandarins of modernism to engage in an agonised debate about what can be described as offensive in our benighted times.
Doing that in New York, and in the other electorally benighted parts of America, is vital to preserving democracy and the public trust it depends on to work.
It intersects with a general contempt for the South as an intellectually backward region and for the stereotype of the "country lawyer" as a backward, benighted legal mind.
The signing ceremony was not just an insult to the benighted coal hamlets of Appalachia, where the industry's dumping of debris down the mountainsides has created a wasteland.
Success is not measured by breakthroughs and ceasefires—welcome as those would be in a country as benighted as Syria—but by lowering the chances of a Russian blunder.
This shift in focus, combined with the steady decline of random violent crime over the past 20 years, has made any discussion of rape by a stranger seem benighted.
Or is it that the people are misinformed and benighted, and the folks in power are doing their best and it would be much worse if they weren't there?
The scandal that upended David's life and continues to haunt his son's comes to seem ever more cruel and benighted, the relic of a culture now receding into history.
After all, it was trumped-up outrage over supposed bias in its last group of human editors that helped to set us down this benighted path to begin with.
It is that bizarre, benighted progression, argues Michael Wolff in his book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, that explains much of the Trump administration's irresolvable dysfunction.
Annie Clark is the best pop star we have—a smart, funny, androgynous visionary who is perceptive enough to help lead us through the benighted times we find ourselves in.
With intricacy and humor, Van der Vliet Oloomi relays Zebra's brainy, benighted struggles as a tragicomic picaresque whose fervid logic and cerebral whimsy recall the work of Bolaño and Borges.
As our reviewer, Liesl Schillinger, wrote, the author "relays Zebra's brainy, benighted struggles as a tragicomic picaresque whose fervid logic and cerebral whimsy recall the work of Bolaño and Borges."
Wouldn't it be uplifting if humankind were to do something that would bring joy and pride back to this benighted civilization, like returning to the moon, this time to stay?
The point is the social appetite he intuited and the forum he created: an anonymous proto-chat room where the benighted could wonder, without judgment, whether it's O.K. to masturbate.
When he discussed the issue then, Mr. Cuomo, whose proposal is more expansive than the Assembly's (which bars suits after the age of 50), described the existing law as benighted.
At the time, Oman seemed benighted, with hardly any paved roads, overwhelming poverty and illiteracy, and Qaboos's eccentric father, fearing change, had banned many forms of modern technology, even eyeglasses.
But I am not so benighted as to suppose that, in the greater scheme of things, they are more deserving than other people's offspring, and generally entitled to preferential treatment.
While Snowden rightly notes that the agency is not made of magic, leaving an entire staging server up, even in the benighted summer of 2013, is a foolish and reckless move.
The article framed Louis alongside JD Vance, whose rust belt memoir, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, chronicles his upbringing in a benighted part of Ohio.
But other than doing the bidding of their wealthy donors and creating pressures to reduce future public spending, I've not seen anyone come anywhere close to justifying this benighted tax plan.
Every piece of subtext has been dredged up so that it can be turned into banal commentary on the benighted attitudes of the provincial patriarchy toward gender, race, class and sexuality.
Sometimes it is the racism of the benighted "racial realists" who arrived at the conclusion that nonwhite people are inferior and have spent the past several centuries working to backfill an explanation.
Interestingly, almost every publisher is well aware of the importance of metadata and the publishing industry – rather than being the benighted industry we all expect it to be – is quite high tech.
Editorial Notebook It was 10 innings that to both sides felt like 10 months or 603 generations, this midnight final contest between benighted Midwestern teams, each so deserving and so long denied.
Liberal or conservative, feminist or chauvinist, woke or benighted, young or old, found on Fox News or in The New Republic, a man's stated opinions have next to no relationship to behavior.
And while the show's dialogue, especially, is defined by broad vulgarity, beneath that surface is an experiment in skewering a benighted milieu without indulging in the very things that made it appalling.
With terrorism and the alleged failures of globalisation and multiculturalism dominating many countries' political discussions, more and more people are keen to see the benighted European places where these disasters are supposedly unfolding.
And the disastrous attempt by George W. Bush to reorder the Middle East by invading Iraq, ostensibly to liberate benighted Arabs, made the idealistic justification for Pax Americana look like a cynical sham.
The photographs from his War on the Benighted series show groups of teenagers in private school uniforms studying or watching each other, caught at fleeting moments when it feels like something momentous might happen.
Even the pounds, miles, gallons and so on, clung on to by a few benighted Anglophones, are, malgré eux, defined in terms of the SI. Measuring anything means comparing it with an agreed standard.
At its height, progressivism produced moralists, cynics and social engineers, with some progressives seeking to liberate humanity from its benighted superstitions as others sought to impose strict rules about sex, alcohol and racial intermingling.
For the past seven years, she has been a public defender in Manhattan, where she has witnessed benighted prosecutorial styles pushing defendants further and further away from the chance of ever gaining their equilibrium.
As in all of Grisham's best books, the reader of "The Rooster Bar" gets good company, a vigorous runaround and — unlike those poor benighted suckers at Foggy Bottom — a bit of a legal education.
Even Jean Stafford, a brilliant, neglected writer often remembered, if at all, as Lowell's benighted first wife, has had her work reissued; three novels have just been handsomely republished by the Library of America.
Beyond that, the continued association of pregnancy with sickness perpetuates the benighted notion of childbearing as a threat to ordinary human experience when many would argue that it is the singular manifestation of it.
"We do not stand outside the world, looking out over this sea of poor benighted people, living under the shadow — or veil — of oppressive cultures," she writes in her book, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
What unifies the two is the subtext of their pitches — a seeming conviction that widespread forces are acting on benighted consumers, who can thwart harm only by venturing to the fringes and buying non-F.
Margaret Renkl NASHVILLE — I thought I had escaped the beautiful, benighted South for good when I left Alabama for graduate school in Philadelphia in 1984, though now I can't imagine how that delusion ever took root.
The Duggars' mass-market brand of King James–style bigotry, however, elides the only sensible reading of Christ's example, one that I keep hoping, to my continuing disappointment, will rise and redeem the benighted religious South.
And citizens of a few benighted places, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, have to submit to the cost and bureaucracy—and often the humiliation—of the visa-application process to get to most places (see chart 22014).
I talked about how our countries are similar in their ambitions — both revolutionary, both arrogant, both presumptuous, both universalist, each certain that it is a "city on a hill," a beacon to the other, more benighted peoples.
On the campaign trail, Mr. Sanders often cites one of them: the Tennessee Valley Authority, created during the New Deal era to bring power and economic development to one of the most benighted parts of the country.
These numbers feed into an effective refrain for Trump: No matter his other stumbles or what the media may say about him, he's a businessman, and his acumen will bring jobs and prosperity back to our benighted nation.
And it's made much harder by the fact that liberals spent the last four years telling themselves that such compromises were not necessary anymore, that they belonged to the benighted 1990s and need trouble liberal consciences no more.
One is the gleaming 21st-century metropolis of the Bloomberg administration's imagination; the other is the deteriorating landscape onto which it was almost mindlessly grafted, one scarred in so many places by the benighted ambitions of Robert Moses.
For you democracy is dead, replaced by technocracy, the rule of Plato's golden souls who know (how do they?) all the outcomes, the ideal way forward, the prescriptions for universal happiness, unlike us benighted, dead-wood, has-beens.
It's taken the N.F.L.P.A. years to get athletes to think of themselves that way, and Mr. Winston said he's proud that the N.F.L.'s youngest stars are arriving in the league so much less benighted than in generations past.
In recent years, such privately educated and smooth-tongued men as Niall Ferguson and Tony Blair could even present the British as saviors of suffering and benighted humanity, urging American neoconservatives to take up the white man's burden globally.
Mr Peston has no doubt that the Brexit vote was an economic mistake, which will make the country poorer, but he puts the blame for the mistake on liberal leaders—that is, people like himself—rather than on the benighted masses.
In the 1960s, Miss King was a feature writer for The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. Her first book under her own name was the nonfiction title "Southern Ladies and Gentlemen" (1975), an astringent anthropology of the region for benighted Yankees.
Code 3 meant get there yesterday, and the benighted address added a little extra urgency: Dallas firefighters, particularly those of color, sometimes moved a little faster to the poorest areas, where nobody had much and houses tended to be uninsured.
Starting at the top of this benighted list is the president's repeated threat to terminate NAFTA, with two assumptions driving this tactic: that Mexico and Canada would be hurt more than the U.S. and that the U.S. would emerge relatively unscathed.
So, on top of fighting a bloody terrorist insurgency, the Afghan Air Force will have to transition to two new aircraft, provided they can find the pilots, and in combat conditions, as there is no rear area in that benighted country.
Board of Education by joining the Citizens' Council, a sort of genteel K.K.K. Atticus is what the historian Isabel Wilkerson has called "a gentleman bigot," and "Watchman" is full of stilted exchanges between a benighted father and his more enlightened daughter.
Together, these men carry enough battered political baggage to stretch from the government shutdown of 20 years ago in which Mr. Gingrich, as House speaker, was a principal provocateur, to the Bridgegate scandal of Mr. Christie's benighted governorship of New Jersey.
These benighted moves come at a time when voters everywhere rank health care as their chief concern, and a majority say they favor fixing the current law over repealing it, after years of futile Republican efforts to do the latter.
Seberg was that most benighted of creatures, the paranoiac who is dead right, and her fears are enshrined in Stewart's performance, at once twitchy and refined; notice how she touches her hairline, as if to check the lid of her head.
Mr. Foglesong's book is as indespensible today as ever, helping Americans to understand how we have treated Russia as either a benighted land yearning to become a second America, or a moral monster whose faults ease Americans' own guilty conscience.
In this culinary minuet, France has always led by bestowing its food and wines on an island it deems gastronomically benighted, and Britain has shown its gratitude by revering French cooking more than any European country aside from Belgium and maybe Switzerland.
"I've dined out on that for the last year or so," he told his listeners at the Y. And the tale, of course, inoculates him against loud mutterings from other audiences, who do not wish to be compared to the benighted Germans.
Kaine of Virginia, who ran on the promise to promote adoptions and reduce abortions in his state, and who supported abstinence-only sex education (just like Sarah Palin) until he cut that benighted program's funding for lack of empirical evidence that it does much.
" I wonder if that may be directed at all of us, his fans, who have followed the benighted Mr. Burroughs through America's most awful, ludicrous childhood in "Running With Scissors," published in 2002, and the sere obligations of rehab in the 2003 follow-up, "Dry.
This idea never quite captured the full range of activity bubbling up during those years, but it did establish a vision of history as something full of motion and progress, in which "the people" would prod society out of its benighted state into a more enlightened future.
A Gothic tale that spans 80 years, from 1839 to 1919, "The Girl From Rawblood" chronicles the downward spiral of the Villarcas, a Spanish-British clan whose ancestral home, Rawblood, is stalked by a ghost, known only as "her," who rains misery on this benighted family.
While guitar may someday return to prominence in the music world, it's good to know that tools like TabBank are there to help those benighted souls who still depend on "strings" and "wood" to make music as they continue their quixotic efforts in the creation of "acoustic" art.
They were also a reference to the multinational team Mr. Abloh, the American son of Ghanaian immigrants, has assembled at Vuitton; to an inexorable tilt in design away from Eurocentrism; and to beckoning untapped markets for luxury goods in what was labeled, in more benighted times, the Third World.
For half an hour, Mr. Kushner answered questions on stage at the Saban Forum, the premier gathering of American and Middle Eastern luminaries each winter, but gave away no hint of the "ultimate deal" he and his father-in-law, President Trump, are developing for the long-benighted region.
Naipaul's rise from such meager, benighted circumstances astonished him more than anyone, and he returned to his unlikely coming-of-age story again and again, in essays, speeches, non-fiction books, and novels that ranged from his 1961 breakthrough A House for Mr. Biswas to 2001's Half a Life.
"Transcription" defamiliarizes the present in terms of gender as well, but in something like the opposite way: in a world that otherwise seems to us almost exotically backward and benighted, the idea that social and workplace mobility for women is still subject to the imagination of men has a grimly recognizable currency.
But a true landslide, a total repudiation, would also encourage unwarranted self-satisfaction and relief among the American republic's ruling class — a sense that the ideas Trump represents, the fears and concerns he has exploited, and the people he has rallied can be safely buried and ignored and consigned once more to the benighted past.
Especially when it came to our policy in Afghanistan, a topic on which the current national security adviser held no less than six principals meetings, each time trying to convince the commander in chief that a large-footprint presence was required in that benighted nation — until, that is, President Trump pointed out to Gen.
Though not every one of these people was completely naive or benighted, I think nearly all of them engaged with Trump University as a way to live Trump's life vicariously, to embrace the fantasy of being the boss and running the show — projecting power and strutting on a big stage, never pulling punches, never backing down.
My own research resulted in a habit of mind I've carried with me all these years, swinging between a creeping horror at all the unsettling supernatural realities most adults are too thick-headed to even acknowledge, and that feeling that comes after a good debunking — a mixture of emotional comfort, intellectual pleasure and condescending pity aimed at the still benighted myth-believers.
It speaks to the size of Trump's achievement, the unprecedented nature of his success, and it is true: [I]t might be a central tragedy of the news media that its old-fashioned and even benighted civic-minded belief that politics is the highest form of news has helped transform it from a mass business to a narrow-cast one.
They did not deliberately set out to provoke moral crises and confessions of murder, even in the most benighted of the countries they visited, but they certainly hoped that the tragedy's celebrated interrogation of social and psychological ills — "Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, / The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, / The insolence of office" — would have some beneficial influence.
By mobilizing states and municipalities to meet U.S. commitments under the Paris Agreement despite President TrumpDonald John TrumpFive environmental fights to watch in 2020 Lawmakers close to finalizing federal strategy to defend against cyberattacks The 7 big Supreme Court cases to watch in 2020 MORE's shameful withdrawal, Bloomberg has helped keep a flicker of U.S. global leadership alive in benighted times.
Filled with futuristic arcana and art world in-jokes (including one aimed at the editor-in-chief of this publication), it takes the form of a survey tracing a quarter-century of contemporary art history, using Powhida's benighted career arc and the rise of Grevsky™ — the corporate art-generating entity he co-founded with the collector Seth Stolbun in 2016 — as its touchstones.
The rich and poor, the privileged and underprivileged, are all so sure that they are right about everything that we all feel it is our manifest destiny to go even to the farthest corners of the earth to teach the benighted souls of underprivileged lands (everywhere else!) all about what it means to live in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
The irrepressible liberal obsession with "understanding" Trump voters—which has created its own tiresome media genre, the parachute-in article from the most benighted place in America filled with "real Trump voters"—arises from the desperate hope that if only these political adversaries can be properly "understood" or "empathized with," then they can be made, like Nike shoe buyers converted to Adidas, to "buy into" Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders.
The rights of transgender people have been a concern of presidential politics; "Transparent," the comedy about a middle-aged male political scientist in the process of becoming female, is popular and in its third season; gender-neutral bathrooms are on the rise, and opposition to them puts challengers in the position of seeming benighted and cranky, as though they hankered for a world still dominated by three television networks.
I think liberals tend to see this as a thin cover for racism, a reflection of troglodyte viewpoints, and in any event unwarranted as the world these folks are resisting would be better even for them if only they'd let it, by giving up their benighted religious views, accepting job training in the new technologies, and preferably moving to one or the other coasts or at least the closest major city.
The two African bodies previously most involved, the African Union (AU) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a 15-country regional club led by South Africa, are sure to make high-minded noises, but their readiness in the past to whitewash Zimbabwe's rigged elections and to wink at the violence and deceit that kept Mr Mugabe in power for so long give no comfort to Zimbabwe's battered opposition or to its benighted citizens.
In 1864, an anonymous pastor pronounced it the greatest threat in the world to young women: I have seen a young lady with her table loaded with volumes loaded of fictitious trash, poring day after day and night after night over highly wrought scenes and skillfully portrayed pictures of romance, until her cheeks grew pale, her eyes became wild and reckless, and her mind wandered and was lost — the light of intelligence passed behind a cloud, and her soul was forever benighted.
While "there is much in Trump and Trumpism that richly deserves a total wipeout, and much in his Republican Party that deserves to be sent howling into the political wilderness," he wrote... ...a true landslide, a total repudiation, would also encourage unwarranted self-satisfaction and relief among the American republic's ruling class—a sense that the ideas Trump represents, the fears and concerns he has exploited, and the people he has rallied can be safely buried and ignored and consigned once more to the benighted past….

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